New Order may have split, but its members seem busier than ever. Bassist turned author turned club promoter Peter Hook is embarking on a speaking tour, while Bernard Sumner, Steve Morris and Phil Cunningham have formed Bad Lieutenant. Even minus Hook – whose feud with Sumner has never been publicly explained – the new band sound an awful lot like the old one.

Morris's racing, staccato drumming style is unchanged, while Sumner's chord-slashing suggests he is a criminally underrated rock guitarist. At their best – as in Running Out of Luck, or Sink or Swim – Bad Lieutenant have also inherited New Order's ability to send melodic tingles down the spine.

Sumner is in impish mood, joking about drinking "Ribena" (a likely story) and how his guitar is "made from pieces of the Haçienda dancefloor". There is something highly comical about seeing him glance at an autocue for such lyrical complexities as "Hey na na," although a chuckled "Don't die of enthusiasm, will ya?!" concerning reaction to their new material highlights a bigger problem. They are a New Orderish band playing to an audience who really want New Order.

But they've clearly decided against escaping the former band's shadow, and dip extensively into its back catalogue. Temptation sounds fresher than Out of Control, Sumner's Chemical Brothers collaboration from 1989. Ceremony sounds awesome, Transmission and Love Will Tear Us Apart slightly ragged. They just need to decide whether they're a new band or a human jukebox: a diluted, smaller-venue New Order missing the man whose unmistakable basslines were so important to their sound.